Even with all the publicity that Area 51 has earned over the bast few decades, they will never move their most top secret research from here, assuming
it ever even was done here.

The sheer massive scale of security controlled area that this base entails and the fact that nobody can even get close enough to look at it through a
telescopic lens anymore still makes it a great asset for top secret technology research.

Coupled with the fact that most test flights of aircraft are done at night anyway, the most you will ever catch of something is some lights in the
sky.

While i do admit that research of high classification will surely be in progress at other bases, Area 51 will surely always house the most top of top
secret.

i agree, nobody has ever found out anything concrete in regards to area 51.

everything in and around the area will remain secret, if people still dont know anything about it since 1947 why move it now.

There are lots of facts known about Area 51 and its history. Its a misconception to say its totally secret and nothing is known about it.

And the talk about it moving to Utah was total nonsense, a piece of crap article from the mid 90s, where the author was rather clueless and got lost
in the desert, confusing a cattle ranch gate with an entrance point for the base, and just assumed that the base was closed, since the cattle ranch
gate had a lock on it.

Groom Lake is pretty much perfect. They're﻿ doing tests on moonless nights in the middle of a mountainous desert. The only risk to secrecy comes
from the people involved in the tests, and that's a risk independent of location. That risk is already solved by security screenings and capital
punishment for treason. I can't think of any reason to move it.

Jim Wilson went down Mailbox Road and forgot to make a right hand turn down Groom Lake Rd. He ended up at one of the Range 61 gates. It is a live
bombing range, so I'm not 100% sure they let cattle on it, but I wouldn't rule it out either.

There was discussion here in the past about the move to Utah. This facility was NEVER even supposed to exist, remember?. For a while now EVERYONE
and their GRANDMA is aware of it. I would say that not relocating the sensitive info and ops would be quite silly given its celebrity status now,
right?

That is another misconception, that Area 51 never officially existed. If you want to learn a lot about the reality of Area 51, go to
dreamlandresort.com, and look at the sections regarding the history of the base. Aircraft like HAVE BLUE, F-117, programs like RED EAGLES, RED HAT,
CONSTANT PEG, all deeply involve that facility.

And then go read through any of Shadowhawks postings here about the place. He is actually responsible for much of the base history reports on that
website, but he has shared a lot of other additional knowledge on here too.

I will say that probably quite a few of you have seen him on television before too if you have watched any programs about area 51/Groom lake. He is
more of an historian regarding that slice of military history than anyone else that I know of

Originally posted by firepilot
That show should have been on the SciFi, nee SyFy channel, not the History Channel. That was heavy on the fiction, less on the history.

Agreed. I watched the entire thing. They had about 5 seconds of footage and the rest was wild supposition, the obligatory spooky music, pretending to
discover well-established things as if finding them out for the first time, gross misinterpretation of innocuous things, basically everything you
would expect to see in a typical ghost hunting show. "Look, dust! It's ETTTT!@!@!!!@@@@!!!1111!11one!!!!1"
...more or less. There was precisely zero new information in that program. Oh, except they discovered a secret unnamed terminal with planes using a
"Janet" call sign, upon "discovery" of which they proceeded to look up the tail numbers and *gasp* they belonged to the government. Breaking news,
everyone! Alert the media! /sarcasm

I guess anything is possible. but that would be really hard for them to do with out having some sort of underground transportation device to move all
the highly secretive stuff from one place to another.

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